Democrats love to paint the picture of Republicans cozying up to lobbyists. Their always either eating lunch in some impossibly upscale place where average folk couldn’t even sniff a reservation, or in some dark, smoke filled, bar smoking cigars and sipping Scotch, their pinky finger stuck out for good measure. The story goes, Republicans are in it for the money, Democrats are the ones left | Read More »

From the diaries by Erick Investing in math and science is the way to solve the economy. A great idea. And somehow liberals have co-opted it to make it sound like their own. Today’s Los Angeles Times for instance contains an article entitled, “Fixing the Economy the Scientific Way,” arguing that the federal government must spend more money on math and science education. They point | Read More »

From the diaries by Erick Investing in math and science is the way to solve the economy. A great idea. And somehow liberals have co-opted it to make it sound like their own. Today’s Los Angeles Times for instance contains an article entitled, “Fixing the Economy the Scientific Way,” arguing that the federal government must spend more money on math and science education. They point | Read More »

District Court Judge Henry Hudson gave an early gift to many conservatives this week, ruling that the individual mandate in the Democrats’ healthcare bill is unconstitutional. Before we all toast our eggnog, Hudson’s decision wasn’t the end of this story. Two district court judges have previously ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional (unsurprisingly, they were Clinton appointees). More importantly, Hudson ruled that the individual | Read More »

Need to jump-start your economy? No need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on Keynesian stimulus programs. No need to add a dime to your deficit. Nope, economic stimulation can be achieved with just two words – Conservative Congress. As it turns out, simply voting conservative this November may provide a spark to the markets that could lead to some huge economic gains. The New | Read More »

Need to jump-start your economy? No need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on Keynesian stimulus programs. No need to add a dime to your deficit. Nope, economic stimulation can be achieved with just two words – Conservative Congress. As it turns out, simply voting conservative this November may provide a spark to the markets that could lead to some huge economic gains. The New | Read More »

As college students, people often taken for granted that we vote Democrat. You’ve probably heard the old political saw (often misattributed to Winston Churchill), “”If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.” There are numerous theories as to why. Democrats have a more optimistic, open-hearted vision for | Read More »

Obamacare was passed with very specific promises from Democrats. President Obama said “We [Senate Democrats and the Administration] agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added, “We can reduce the costs of premiums for Nevadans and all Americans. This is one more reason why we need to pass health | Read More »

President Obama’s carefully crafted cult of personality seems to be crumbling. It seems people have finally stopped drinking the Kool-Aid. A new ABC poll out this week finds that for the first time that a majority of people disapprove of the way President Obama is handling his job. With their figurehead falling, Congressional Democrats are in the weeds. The same poll finds that likely voters | Read More »

“Genuine bipartisanship assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority … negotiate in good faith.” Sounds fair enough, right? This is actually an excerpt from President Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope”. While campaigning for office, Obama | Read More »

It must be getting really boring to be one of the President’s speechwriters. How many different ways can you say the same thing? For over a year now, as employment has remained stagnant despite the President’s stimulus plan we’ve heard the same thing: “I didn’t get us into this mess, but now that we’re here I’ve met with some people and we’re working on it.” | Read More »

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid out the three guiding principles of the economic stimulus package: that it be “timely, temporary and targeted.” More than a year later, it is clear that none of these principles has been fulfilled. Timely? As CBS News reported as recently as August 16, almost all of the stimulus money has been awarded, but that is very different from it all | Read More »

This has been the summer of poorly named projects. First we’ve got the follow-up season of Jersey Shore that was actually shot in…Miami? Then we got the President’s “Recovery Summer” in which the economy…continued to lose jobs? How are those two things in any way related? They’re not. Nevertheless, who did they think they were fooling? At MTV, the home of My Super Sweet 16, | Read More »

Labor unions are their own worst enemy. They were formed with laudable goals, finding power in numbers to fight against the poor working conditions, long hours, and low pay of many early manufacturing jobs. Recently, unions have fallen on hard times. Their percentage of the workforce has fallen to a historical low of 8%. Moreover, In 1957 sixty-one percent more people approved than disapproved of | Read More »

We as a society love teachers. They are the nurturers of talent. The cultivators of intelligence. The rudder that steers this nation’s future generations. They represent some of our fondest memories. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t part of the sacrifice that we are making as a nation to get our finances back on track. Let me repeat: they must be part of the sacrifice. | Read More »